A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 páginas |
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... feeling and judgment . But though thus destitute of what Cicero calls the " Fontes philosophiæ e quibus illa manant , " their sense of the importance of delivery , is strongly dis- closed in their history . I will not dwell on the case ...
... feeling and judgment . But though thus destitute of what Cicero calls the " Fontes philosophiæ e quibus illa manant , " their sense of the importance of delivery , is strongly dis- closed in their history . I will not dwell on the case ...
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... feel the disadvantages arising from the deficiency . Hereafter , young gentlemen of America , some of you will deeply regret your neglect of the art of delivery : when you are obliged to do that indifferently , which you might have ...
... feel the disadvantages arising from the deficiency . Hereafter , young gentlemen of America , some of you will deeply regret your neglect of the art of delivery : when you are obliged to do that indifferently , which you might have ...
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... feel asha- med of urging such plain matters of fact , were it not for our extraordinary ignorance on the subject . I never yet pronounced the vocal elements of our language , in my public lectures , without exciting the mirthful wonder ...
... feel asha- med of urging such plain matters of fact , were it not for our extraordinary ignorance on the subject . I never yet pronounced the vocal elements of our language , in my public lectures , without exciting the mirthful wonder ...
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... feeling . But independent of emphasis , or the indication of any particular state of the feelings , if words are not marked by a due proportion of percussive or explosive stress , they will not be audible through an extensive space ...
... feeling . But independent of emphasis , or the indication of any particular state of the feelings , if words are not marked by a due proportion of percussive or explosive stress , they will not be audible through an extensive space ...
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... feeling . On this account , it shuts up the sympathies of an audience , and when excessive , is a most effective means of destroying their attention . It is not to be expected that the varied phrases of melody can be intermingled in a ...
... feeling . On this account , it shuts up the sympathies of an audience , and when excessive , is a most effective means of destroying their attention . It is not to be expected that the varied phrases of melody can be intermingled in a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accented articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible fore give Harfleur hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising ditone rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ
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Página 111 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 133 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 147 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Página 111 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Página 175 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Página 175 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto - them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Página 147 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet, entrancing voice he loved the best. They would have thought who heard the strain, They saw in Tempe's...
Página 150 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That...
Página 162 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted...
Página 164 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...